PlCIDiE.] OSTEOLOGIA AVIUM. [PlCUMNIN^E. 



General Remarks on Scansores. 



The only group of birds that this Order comes at all near are some of the members of 

 the Order Omnivores, namely the Capitonince. At first I placed this group in Scansores ; 

 but the great length of the fissures in the sternum, the exceeding shortness and square- 

 ness of the sternum, and the form of the pelvinal bones agreeing precisely with Tro- 

 gonidce, at once point them out as belonging to the same Order. 



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